Planning and development for Calgary’s Green Line LRT project has been more than a decade in the making. It may take a decade more for the now-$6.2 billion project to be built.
In September, the Alberta government pulled its $1.53B share of funding for the first phase of the line, the Calgary city council voted to wind down not just the first phase, but the entirety of the project, putting its future in limbo. The driving reason for the province’s actions appear to be changes in the project’s scope. Over its decade-plus of planning, the project had shrunk considerably, from an originally planned 46-km of rail and 20-plus stations to 10-km of track and seven stations.
